The restrictive measures that have been imposed from March 2020 on business activities in several countries to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic can be interpreted as shocks to global supply chains. We propose some agent-based models to evaluate the economic effects of different...

This paper aims to identify some of the determinants of firm performance on social and environmental issues. Specifically, we look at the effect of corporate boards’ gender diversity. Then, we measure the impact of corporate directors’ social networks as captured by centrality measures. We...

Network analysis is becoming a fundamental tool in the study of systemic risk and financial contagion in the banking sector. Still, the network structure must typically be estimated from noisy and aggregated data, as micro data on the status quo banking network structure are typically...